About Us
Fort Lauderdale Chapter SAR
Welcome
Welcome to our website! We are the Fort Lauderdale Chapter of the Florida Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. The Chapter, initially organized on December 8, 1966, is a Florida not-for-profit 501 c (3) organization, incorporated on April 3, 2017. We are a non-political male, lineage society. Our area of operation includes all of Broward County. You may review our organizational documents at the following links:
Chapter Articles of Incorporation
Visit our page "About SAR" to learn more about SAR at the national, district, state and local levels. Interested in SAR! Visit our page "Join Us".
Purpose and Objectives
The purpose and objects of the SAR and this Chapter are declared to be patriotic, historical and educational, and shall include those intended or designed:
1) to perpetuate the memory of those patriots who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people;
2) to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants;
3) to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound reverence for the principles of the government founded by our forefathers;
4) to encourage historical research in relation to the American Revolution;
5) to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics, and landmarks;
6) to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate memorials;
7) to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war and of the Revolutionary period;
8) to foster true patriotism;
9) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and
10) to carry out the purposes expressed in the preamble of the Constitution of our country and the injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to the American people.
Chapter Elected Officers & Executive Committee
2025
The business affairs of the Fort Lauderdale Chapter SAR are managed by its Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is comprised of the Chapter's elected officers, the Immediate Past President, and at least one Member-at Large. The current year Chapter officers and members of the Executive Committee are:
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Chuck Adams, President, Treasurer and Registrar/Genealogist
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Steve De Paul, Vice President and Sergeant-at-Arms
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Mark Snider, Secretary
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Kevin Shurte, Historian
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Editor - open
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Tim McLane, Chaplin
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Immediate Past President - open
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Paul Moore, Member-at-Large